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ANTHROPOLOGY
E. Pritchard, The Nuer, OUP, 1940 £12.50
Joy Adamson, The Peoples of Kenya, Collins, 1967 £8.50
ANTIQUES, ARCHITECTURE, ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, DESIGN
Antique Porcelain Book £8.50
Helen Allingham, Cottage Houses of England, Bracken Books, 1978 £6.00
Gertrude Jekyll, Gardens for Small Country Houses, Country Life, 1927 £32.50
Margaret Aulton, Fair Touraine, Bodley Head, 1925 £10.00
E. J. Wall, The Dictionary of Photography, Iliffe & Sons £6.00
Colette Mansell, The Collector's Guide to British Dolls since 1920, Robert Hale, 1983 £8.50
BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPY/MEMOIRS
More Biography £6.50
The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky, Gollancz £7.50
Charles Rowe, A Quaker Boy Growing Up, 1961 £7.50
Sybille Bedford, Aldous Huxley: a Biography (vol 1), Chatto Collins, 1973 £4.50
Fonteyn, Spring Books, c.1950 £4.50
Charles Chaplin, My Autobiography, Bodley Head, 1964 £10.00
Autobiography of Leigh Hunt, Cresset Press, 1949 £6.00
L.T.C. Rolt, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Book Club Associates, 1971 (7th impression) £4.50
Martin Gilbert, Finest Hour: Winston S. Churchill 1939-41, Heinemann, 1983 £7.50
George Spater, A Marriage of True Minds: Intimate Portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Jonathan Cape, 1977 £4.50
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
The Princess Elizabeth’s Gift Book, Hodder & Stoughton £4.50
Girl Annual no. 2 £5.00
Elsie J. Oxenham, Schoolgirl Jen of the Abbey, Collins, 1958 £4.50
Elsie J. Oxenham, Song of the Abbey, Collins, 1958 £4.50
W. E. Johns, Gimlet Lends a Hand, Brocks Books, 1949 £15.00
J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan and Wendy, Hodder & Stoughton, 1981 facsimile reprint £7.50
Leonard de Vries, Flowers of Delight, Dobson, 1965 £8.50
Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses, Spring Books, 1989 fascimile £7.50
Kit Williams, Masquerade, Jonathan Cape, 1st edition 1979, damaged £25.00
W. E. Johns, Biggles Flies to Work, Dean & Co, 1963 £3.00
Anthony Buckeridge, Jennings Little Hut, Collins, 1962 £3.00
Anthony Buckeridge, Jennings Goes to School, Collins, 1956 £3.50
Anthony Buckeridge, The Trouble with Jennings, Collins, 1961 £5.00
Anthony Buckeridge, Speaking of Jennings, Collins, 1974 1st edition 1st state dust wrapper £20.00
W. E. Johns, Biggles and the Black Peril, Dean & Co £3.00
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, Methuen, 1996 £5.00
CLASSIC LITERATURE
Oscar Wilde, Complete Works, Collins, 1971 in slipcase £6.50
FICTION (NOVELS and SHORT STORIES)
Franz Kafka, Description of a Struggle, Secker & Warburg, 1960 (ex-library) £6.50
William Makepeace Thackeray, Pendennis, Smith Elder, 1869 2 volumes £35.00
Pierre C de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, 1782 1 volume 1st edition £65.00
Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight, Doubleday, 2010 signed first edition £50.00
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Putnams, 1955 (lacking dust wrapper) £15.00
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Everyman’s Library £4.50
FOLIO SOCIETY EDITIONS
A Treasury of Mark Twain £4.50
An Innkeeper's Diary £4.50
Rare Adventures of William Lithgow £5.00
Anthology of Autobiography £4.50
The Diary of a Village Shopkeeper £5.00
Our Village £5.00
The Jubilee Years £5.00
Life on the Mississippi £5.00
J. B. Priestley, English Journey £6.50
Historic Speeches £4.50
Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby £7.50
Jerome K. Jerome, My Life and Times £6.50
The Smith of Smiths £4.50
The Quest for Corvo £4.50
Little Book of Forewords £4.00
Best After Dinner Stories £4.50
P. D. James, Cover Her Face £8.50
The Persian Expedition £8.50
The Secret Histories £6.50
A.G. Macdonell, England, Their England £6.50
ed. J.E Morpurgo, Cobbett’s America £7.50
Daniel Defoe, Roxanna £8.50
Pierre C de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses £12.50
Alexandre Dumas, The Black Tulip £7.50
Thomas Hardy, The Trumpet Major, 1990 £4.50
Hugh Walpole, Richard III, 1965 £6.50
Boccaccio, The Decameron, 1953 (2 volumes) £8.00
The Amateur Emigrant £4.50
FORESTRY, FARMING, LAND MANAGEMENT
V. C. Fishwick, Pigs, Crosby, 1948 £5.00
HISTORY
John W. Dodds, The Age of Paradox, Gollancz, 1953 £4.50
The Diary of Anne Frank, Viking, 1989 £25.00
Francis Hacket, Henry VIII, Jonathan Cape, 1950 £6.00
John Collingwood Bruce, The Wall of Hadrian, A. Reid, 1874
LOCAL HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY, VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE
N. Pevsner, North Somerset and Bristol, Penguin, 1958 £12.50
N. Pevsner, South and West Somerset, Penguin, 1958 £17.50
N. Pevsner, Surrey, Penguin, 1962 £15.00
N. Pevsner, Warwickshire, Penguin, 1966 £12.50
John Barber, The Story of Oakham School, Sycamore Press, 1983 £20.00
Crichton Porteous, Portrait of Peakland, Robert Hale, 1963 £4.50
Lincolnshire Parish Clergy, Lincolnshire Record Society, 2016 £9.00
G. Ornsby, Sketches of Durham, George Andrews, 1846, bound together with: T. Bell, Local Monuments, T & J Pigg, 1856; Bruce Collingwood, The Wall of Hadrian, A. Reid, 1874; and E. Charlton, Society in Northumberland in the 18th Century, A. Reid, 1874 £85.00
W. Harrod, Norfolk Shell Guide, Faber, 1964 £8.50
MILITARY HISTORY/MARITIME
Frank Carr, The Yachtsman’s England, Seely Service, c.1950s £5.00
Cornelius Ryan, The Last Battle, Collins, 1966 £25.00
David Chandler, Marlborough Military Commander, Military Books, 1973 £12.50
Edward Ardizzone, Diary of a War Artist, Bodley Head, 1974 (ex library) £15.00
MODERN FIRST EDITIONS
Dirk Bogarde, A Gentle Occupation, Chatto & Windus, 1980 (first edition) £6.50
NATURAL HISTORY
The Scallop, Shell £6.50
PASTIMES, HANDICRAFTS, TECHNICAL SKILLS
John Wilding, 30 Hour Alarm Clock £25.00
Hugard, Expert Card Technique, Faber, 1954 £22.50
PHILOSOPHY
J. Ruskin, Unto this Last, George Allen, 1902 £15.00
POETRY and DRAMA
Acting Games, University of London Press, 1946 £3.50
Robert Herrick, Collected Poems, 1906 £45.00
Tom Stoppard, Jumpers, Faber, 1976 paperback reprint £4.00
Gilbert and Sullivan, Songs of Two Savoyards, Routledge, 1892 £8.50
R.H. Cromek, Reliques of Robert Burns, Cadell & Davies, 1808 (first edition) £110.00
RAILWAYS
Gordon Rushton, Welsh Highland Railway Renaissance: The Story of the Restoration of the Welsh Highland Railway 1991-2011, Adlestrop Press, 2012 £20
REFERENCE
Brooke-Little, A Complete Guide to Heraldry, Bloomsbury, 1985 £8.50
SOCIAL HISTORY
Ian Bevan, Top of the Bill: the story of the London Palladium, Muller, 1952 £12.50
Winston Churchill, The Island Race, Cassell, 1954 £8.50
E. Charlton, Society in Northumberland in the 18th Century, A. Reid
SPORTS AND GAMES
Tani Yukio, The Art of Ju-Jitsu, Foulsham, sm. pb. c.1960 £5.50
Crascredo, Horse Sense and Sensibility, Country Life, 2nd impression 1927 £6.50
Alfred Wainwright, Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells Book 1, Westmorland Gazette £3.50
Alfred Wainwright, Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells Book 3, Westmorland Gazette £3.50
Alfred Wainwright, Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells Book 4, Westmorland Gazette £3.50
Alfred Wainwright, Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells Book 5, Westmorland Gazette £3.50
Alfred Wainwright, Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells Book 7, Westmorland Gazette £3.50
Alfred Wainwright, Walks on the Howgill Fells, Westmorland Gazette £5.00
Alfred Wainwright, A Lakeland Sketchbook, Westmorland Gazette £5.00
Alfred Wainwright, Fellwanderer, Westmorland Gazette £5.00
John Roberts, Illustrated Dictionary of Trout Flies, Collins Willow, 1995 £6.50
TRAVEL, MOUNTAINEERING AND EXPLORATION
Pompeo Molmenti, Venice, Medici Society £4.00
John Hunt, The Ascent of Everest, Hodder & Stoughton, 1953 (first edition in very good dust wrapper) £27.50
H. Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet, Rupert Hart Davies, 1953 (lacking dustwrapper) £5.00